Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 20, 1913, Page 5

Again With le seful and ornamental gifts may be selected. The home omforts are the gifts that count, and why not get HER a Complete set of China? Either Haviland or the less xpensive patterns can be found here, This is the time to give her that range she’s been antmg, or it may be one of our gasoline or oil stoves that e prefers. Our line of cutlery is the most complete to be found nywhere, and it only has to be seen to be appreciated. That cofiee percolator she’s been talking about would pake your breakfast better, so let us show you one. These and many other innumerable gifts can be found t our store. ILSON ARDWARE Cao. AKELAND BUSINESS COLLEGE h individual instruction in mercial branches at a much DR. W. R. 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' not you realize that by persisting in Book I From our large and varied stock many handsome, | _€BAPTER 1_Rutolph Van Vechten, o young man of leisure, is astonished ' to 8ee & man enter No. lfilh & house across the street from the Powhatan club. The house has lor':fi been unoccupled and is 8poken of as the House of Mystery. CHAPTER II—Several lar intervals enter ‘;io CHAPTER III—Van Vechten concern to his friend, Tom Phinney, re- garding the whereabouts of his cousin and Illneeo Paige Carew. A fashionably ltth woman {s seen to enter the House y-urzo A man is forcibly ejected from the house. Van Vechten l!l Tom ::no: the man and find him dead in the rsons at regu- CHAPTER IV—Van Vechten is attract- od by the face of a girl in the crowd of onlookers surrounding the body. Lates he discovers the girl gazing at hlm with & look of scorn from the windows of the mysterious house. CHAPTER V—Detective Flint calls on Xan V’echwn to get his version of the CHAPTER VI—Tom Phinney goes alone on a yachting trip. He recognizes amon, Some per<ons in a passing motor boa two men whom he had seen enter the House of Mystery. He sees one of them, & Mr. Callls, on shore later and follows hlm Tom {5 geized, blindfolded and taken to a house. He hears a girl named Jessie, evidently the daughter of the man in authority, question his captors. A sweet- voiced girl later protests against the roughness of his captors, Book 1l. CHAPTER I—Van Vechten calls on his uncle, Theodore Van Vechten, big man in Wall ,8treet and known as the “Man of Iron,” in search of information regarding the whereabouts of Palge Carew. CHAPTER II-Detective Flint shows Van Vechten a gold mesh purse found in the House of Mystery. Van recognizes it as belonging to Paige Carew. CHAPTER TII-The sweet-volced girl helps Tom Phinney escape, but refuses to disclose her {dentity. Tom declares he will meet her again, CHAPTER 1V—Detective Flint tells Van Vechten he has a theory that Paige has been kidnaped. Van goes to lay the case before his uncle. CHAPTER V—Messages are sent to Europe in an effort to trace Paige. Tom tells Van Vechten he s in love and re- lates his adventure. CHAPTER VI—-A message from London reports that two ladles resembling Miss Carew and her eompanion, Mrs. Devereaux, salled for New York some 'tl"r:\d previously. A reward of $2,500 18 of- CHAPTER VII-It develops that the ladies visited the English home of Tem- ple Bonner, owner of the House of Mys- tery. Flint has a theory that they are connected with the mystery of No. 1313. CHAPTER VIIT-Tt {8 recalled that Temple Bonner was in love with a daughter of Compton Schuyler, who mar- ried Max Willard. The other daughter married A man named Devereaux. 0N« ner and Willard were Intimate friends, A search is started for Willard. CHAPTER TX—Van Vechten enters the House of Mystery by the back door in time to hear John Callls threaten a girl, He interferes and helps the girl escape, but is rendered unconscious in the strug- gle with Callis. Book I1I. CHAPTER T-Tom Phinney gets a job as master of Brownlow’s yacht Kohinur which has been chartered for some mys- terious mission. At the next words Van Vechten started so violently that, had the un- seen couple dbeen less absorbed in their quarrcl, they must ha 1 him. The girl was etil! “You have done ger me that I have Callis; but your ! o than I can spea many things to an- cver cked, Jchn just a bit more endurc, Now I mean to tcil father just Ls you have heen hara g me, and, mark my words, he will put # ctep to {t. Why cid you comn aftes it was - cided that I vwas to do the erranc alone?” “You know,” Callis’ deep voice growled. “You take precious car. i-a‘ I don't get to lalk to you anywher« else.” “And why?” returned ths girl, wit® eringly. “Because ycu can'i be s sible. No, no; don't interrupt” commanded, “If you have follow me here ‘o learn what I think o: vou, then listen (o me. I'll make my mean- ing 8o plain that it wiil penetrate even to your duall uncersts g, “There was 2 lime tha I liked you, John—how could i help it when in go many ways you have been so loyal? Even now [ admire that loyalty.” “A dog's!” the man contemptuously interjected; but the girl ignored the “But you are so obtuse that you can- not see when your familiarities are dis tasteful? I am sure I have never en- couraged you by word or look. Can- them you only excite loathing and fear— “But, no, 1 am not afraid of you.” The voice abruptly softened. “And I don’t loathe you, John; it's wicked for me to say such a thing; but you will drive me to loathing you if you persist {n making love to me. I do not love you, I never have, I never can.” A roar from the man cut short her words. o “Damn it, Ill make you love me! The words rattled harshly in his ! throat. “Do you think I have been working and waiting all these years from any sense of duty or loyalty to your father? Then the more fool you. O’lzarles ,‘/,, e]’d mo er,{’ub I meant at the first that you should be my wife; I have meant it all along; Lamean it now more than ever. And— by God! you ehan’t turn me down in l this way! I won't—I can't stand it!” There was a pause. The stillness of the mouldering corridors and empty chambers seemed to gather and weigh down upon the listener like a palpable substance. What should he do; re- treat without letting his presence be |} known, or open the door and inter- fere? So far the girl had demonstrated her ability to handle the eituation, and | ihe shrank from appearing as an of- |flcious meddler; yet, for the life of ‘ ! him, until he was vouchsafed at lent‘ l a hint of the altercation’s outcome, he | | could not depart. | | The silence was quite abruptly | broken by the girl's voice, cold now and biting. “John, stand away from the door and let me by.” No response from the man. “Are you going to let me pass?” And again, apparently, he was un- able to contain himself. “No!” he buret forth. “If all my months of waiting and giving—myself, y'understand—giving the best of me for you—if my only payment is to be— scorn and contempt I suppose you'd call it—then, by heaven! I'll make you suffer! I'll break your spirit; I —rn—-" “John!” in a shocked voice. He did not heed; all restraint was thrown to the winds, and he drove on in a reckless frenzy of speech. “You think I care what happens to me, do you? Huh! Blame little you know about John Callis, If I cnnt; hades what becomes of me. If I can't have you nobody else shall. Scream, if you want to—yell at the top of your voice—there’s nobody to hear you.” “Johm!” The girl was now genuine- ly alarmed. “Don't talk so wildly! You'll regret this. And don’t—don’t look at me like that!” Another briet pause and she concluded pleadingly: “Please, John, let me go!” “I shan't”—doggedly. “What do you mean to do with me, John?" “I don’t know. I haven't made up my mind. Maybe I'll kill you—if you drive me to it.” The girl must have rushed toward the door, desperately striving to win past him, and just as certainly he must have caught her and stayed her steps. What followed was pretty much confused in Van Vechten’s mind. There | was a sound of scuffling; the incensed | listener in the hall heard the girl cry out in an agitated voice: “Oh! You are hurting me!” which was immedi- ; ately followed by a stifled shriek that | chilled the blood in his veins. ! Next instant he had grasped the. knob and thrown all his weight against the door. It was unbolted and crashed open | with explosive violence. His lrrup-' tion promptly quieted the disturbance. ! The man—it was the sandy-complex- | ioned man-—stood with dropped jaw, ' staring blank'y at the intruder. And the giri? 1is heart leaped. His whole being was suffused with a warm The girl that he had despaired ever seeing again, what unhappy mischanes had brought her to this rl And what unrecognized mes- ad prompted him to arrive upon ‘n< 50 opportunely? i After the first shock of pleased sur: | ] Van Vechten flamed, then to fce. His regard traveled to the mar in a narrowed look of anger | that left him white to the lips. It was a hard look, an ugly, wicked look that | spelled danger. | But his lifelong habit of repression ! checked any violent display of feeling | on his part. The spell was broken | when he composedly advanced a step . farther into the room, not for an in- stant moving his steely regard from the man. All of & sudden his thin lips twisted in an odd little smile that was not at all pleaging to see. “Well?” ha said quietly. Save for the unmistakable undercurrent of menace, the tone might have been af. fable. So profound was the other man's stupefaction that he mechanically re- leased the girl's wrists and fell back a pace. Cnly 2 quick anticipation of his act saved her from floor; as it was sh wara until 2 dust-coated library table stayed her. At this she clutched, clinging to its edges, and, wideeyed, stared from one to the other of the nen. Her tormentor’s brain, cbvious- ly, stirred only sluggishly; but all at once the ':ulku features vere congest- | ed with blood, the veins on his ‘ore- head ewellegd, and zli his fury—now re- doubled—was dlrectcd at Van Vec}‘r; ten. “Where in kell did you come from?” | he gnarled venomously, | “Anyhow, not the same neighbor- hood that bred you” Van Vechten | eyed him & rioment longer with inex- | pressible disiavor. “Good Lord!” he‘ (Continued on Page 8.) have you I don't care a whoop in (; BARGAINS IN USED AUTOS .Maxwell Runabout, Buick Truc Maxwell Runabout, Buick Trucks, Maxwell Touring Car 1913, Ford Touring Car, High Powered Roadster, Cad- illac Touring Car. B.U. JONES Auto Broker 1300 Franklin St. TAMPA, FLA. 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